Anybody can lead when the scoreboard looks good. True leadership is revealed when you're behind.

Season three of John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is here, and we open with Law 15: The Law of Victory. Every leader hits the moment when the plan stops working, the market shifts, or the numbers don't look the way they should.

In that moment, everybody looks at you with one question: do you still believe we can win?

John has spent a lifetime building leaders, and he teaches this law through the people he has watched live it, from presidents and prime ministers to a man who walked out the door on Thanksgiving Day and refused to come home until the job was done. His message is simple: leaders find a way for the team to win.

I know this lesson firsthand. I've felt lost. I've lost a little of my swagger. I've made moves that weren't right and didn't know the next one. In this episode, I break down why winners don't experience less adversity than anyone else, why your identity shows up in your losses instead of your wins, and why your team catches how you respond long before they hear a word you say.

Before you press play, ask yourself something. Have I actually lost, or have I just stopped looking for the way to win? Those are two totally different things.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Finding a way vs. knowing the way: Why great leaders do not always have the answer, and what to do when it happens to you
• The question that changes everything: The difference between "why is this happening to me" and what winners ask instead.
• Contagious leadership: What your team picks up from your language, your tonality, and your patience under pressure.
• A picture of the law: John makes the Law of Victory tangible with a set of traits you can measure yourself against.
• Victory is not an individual trophy: Why the leader's job is to bring everybody across the line.
• The one-page rep: The one winning move to make within 24 hours.

Somewhere in your life, you've started accepting something you were never supposed to accept. Don't let one loss become who you are. Find the next move and make it.

Max out.